| September 26, 2006 | - It was reported that this year's increase in health insurance premiums, the smallest since 1999, was double the rate of inflation.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 3, 2006 | - A study found that white middle-aged Britons were, on average, healthier than white middle-aged Americans.
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The Guardian
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| April 12, 2006 | - A poll found that 55 percent of Americans want a Massachusetts-style health care law.
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ABC News
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| April 5, 2006 | - The Massachusetts legislature voted to make health insurance mandatory for all state residents by July 2007.
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The New York Times
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| November 18, 2005 | - The House approved a $50 billion budget cut that will increase Medicaid fees and reduce funding for student loans and food stamps.
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The Hartford Courant
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| August 18, 2005 | - A study found that white people tend to get better, more thorough health care than African-American people.
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The Washington Post
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| April 17, 2005 | - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 420 points; pharmaceutical stocks, however, continued to rise.
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AP
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| April 14, 2005 | - A scientist cataloged 395 different species of bacteria in the lower intestines of three healthy humans.
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EurekAlert!
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| April 12, 2005 | - A Danish study found no link between cell phones and brain tumors.
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InformationWeek
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| February 13, 2005 | -
General Motors was spending more for health care than for steel.
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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| December 24, 2004 | - The UK's National Health Service was running low on painkillers.
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Guardian
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| November 20, 2004 | -
Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill. The bill had $15.8 billion worth of “extras,” including $25,000 for the study of mariachi music and $2 million to buy back the presidential yacht, sold by Jimmy Carter in 1977. The yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, currently rents for $2,500 an hour. The bill also allows hospitals and HMOs to refuse to provide abortions, and gave two committee chairmen and their assistants access to income tax returns, without regard to privacy laws. Republicans acknowledged the mistake of the latter provision, and vowed to repeal it.
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USA Today
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USA Today
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sequoiayacht.com
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LA Times
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AP
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| November 18, 2004 | -
Condoleezza Rice entered the hospital for minor surgery of an undisclosed nature.
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Reuters
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| October 20, 2004 | - Two Polish doctors and two ambulance workers were charged with murder for killing patients in exchange for kickbacks from funeral homes.
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Associated Press
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| October 16, 2004 | - Disabled, elderly, and sick people were lining up for hours hoping to get a flu shot; one woman in California died after she collapsed from exhaustion and hit her head.
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Associated Press
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| October 6, 2004 | - The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations called on hospitals to prevent "anesthesia awareness," which is the term for when a patient can feel the pain of surgery but is unable to move or cry out.
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Associated Press
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| October 2, 2004 | - Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, began notifying more than 500 patients that they might have been exposed to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease because of inadequate sterilization procedures.
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Associated Press
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| August 28, 2004 | - The Census Bureau reported that there were 35.8 million Americans living in poverty in 2003, an increase of 1.3 million over 2002, and that the number of people without health insurance rose from 43.5 million to 45 million.
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ABC News
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| June 14, 2004 | - A surgeon from South Carolina proposed denying care to lawyers involved in medical-malpractice cases.
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Associated Press
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| May 5, 2004 | - A new study found that Americans get substandard medical care most of the time, despite the fact that they spend about $1.4 trillion a year for it.
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New York Times
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| April 6, 2004 | -
Mexican woman performed a cesarean section on herself with a kitchen knife.
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Reuters
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| March 26, 2004 | - It was found that health-care
lobbyists spent $237 million lobbying Congress in 2000, more than every other industry combined; drug companies spent $96 million, quite a bit more than other medical sectors.
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Case Western Reserve University
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| March 8, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized with gallstone pancreatitis.
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CNN
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| March 2, 2004 | -
California's supreme court ruled that a Catholic charity must cover birth control in its employee health coverage.
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New York Times
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| March 2, 2004 | - Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested cutting Social Security and Medicare to help pay for President Bush's massive tax cuts for the rich.
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New York Times
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| February 16, 2004 | - A dental chart from 1973 suggested that the future president had been neglecting his teeth.
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New York Times
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| February 13, 2004 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft defended issuing subpoenas for abortion records and said that the records were necessary to find out whether doctors who have sued to overturn the ban on so-called partial-birth abortions are telling the truth when they say they have performed the procedure out of medical necessity.
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New York Times
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| February 12, 2004 | - An elderly Florida man robbed a bank to pay for his wife's medical bills.
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Ananova
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| February 7, 2004 | - Senator Bill Frist said that "it is impossible" to make sure that all Americans have health insurance.
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New York Times
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| December 8, 2003 | - President George W. Bush signed a $400 billion Medicare bill that will provide a prescription-drug benefit to elderly Americans; the bill permits private insurance companies to compete with Medicare, which many think will destroy the program, but bans policies that would cover gaps in the drug benefit on the theory that people with good prescription coverage take too many pills and drive up medical costs.
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Associated Press, New York Times
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| November 29, 2003 | -
Congress approved a major Medicare bill that permits the elderly to buy prescription drug coverage; few citizens were able to understand the plan, though the health-care industry appeared to be well pleased by it. The legislation was endorsed by AARP, which nowadays makes a great deal of money selling health-care products to its members, and consumer advocates denounced it as "a classic election-year giveaway." Some experts predicted a revolt among the elderly once the plan takes effect in 2006 and the true costs of reform become clear.
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New York Times
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